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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5209, 1 December 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

"Tjic City or Health. If people only knew tlio important part which the teeth play in the economy of health, they would ho more careful to preserve them. This cannot bo done more effectually than hy the regular use of Uowlan'DsT Ouonto, or Pearl Dentrillce, an elegant preparation, which prevents the decay of the teeth, and gives them a pearly whiteness, at the same time imparting to the breath a grateful fragrance. Tito genuine Odonto has the words A. Howland & Sons engraved in red on the Government stamp fixed on each box: buy only Howlands’. Sold all over the world by chemists, druggists, bazaar and store keepers. Wholesale agents, Felton, Grimwade. and Co. A Third Sa.tei.litk.— The New York Times thus moralises on the alleged discovery of a third satellite of Mars;—in whatever way wo seek to explain the affair, there is no denying that it is a painful one. Klthcr we must charge the asironmners with wilfully repressing astronomical facts, or we must assume that Mars has recently obtained its moons in some surreptitious way, and that the nebular hypothesis is false, so far as it asserts that all satellites have been thrown off from their respective planets. It is certainly painful to suspect the astronomers of disingenuous conduct, but it is atill more painful to charge Mars with trying to palm off adopted moons as his own legitimate satellites, and with striking a wanton b'ow at the nebular hypothesis. Still, there seems to bo no escape from one of these two conclusions, and. as there is no longer any possibility of keeping the aff/v r out of the newspapers, it is best that it should have a full investigation, and that the precise facts in the case should be dolinitoly ascertained. \ Tno«ic Spirits Ailvin.—Housemaid—" Well, of course I knows better : but sine * master and missus believes in ’em so, all 1 breaks I puts down to the spirits.” “ The slumber of the pure is sweet, says the Talmud. That accounts for the sleeping in the church, surrounded by the powrest influences. " Base is the slave that pays." Our creditors are asked to observe the poetic beauty of the foregoing lino. Shakspero was no slouch.